Siyuan Niu

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2026 Error Mitigation in Dynamic Circuits for Hamiltonian Simulation
abstract
Dynamic quantum circuits integrate mid-circuit measurements and feed-forward operations to enable real-time classical processing and conditional quantum logic. These capabilities are central to key quantum protocols such as quantum error correction, and have recently demonstrated significant potential for reducing quantum resources, including circuit depth and gate count, across a range of applications. However, executing dynamic circuits on real quantum hardware introduces a critical trade-off: while resource requirements decrease, circuit fidelity degrades due to high error rates of mid-circuit measurements, as well as the decoherence errors accumulated during the extended idle periods introduced by both mid-circuit measurements and feed-forward operations. In this paper, we systematically investigate the impact of standard error mitigation techniques on dynamic circuit applications pertaining to Hamiltonian simulation and ground state estimation of physically relevant systems like the Heisenberg model. We explore dynamical decoupling (DD) as a strategy to suppress decoherence and crosstalk errors during idle windows introduced by mid-circuit measurements and feed-forward delays, and also examine error mitigation via zero-noise extrapolation (ZNE). Through experiments conducted on IBM quantum hardware, we benchmark effective combinations of these strategies that maximize the practical benefits of dynamic quantum circuits in these applications. We demonstrate that a combination of DD and ZNE is effective in mitigating the errors introduced during mid-circuit measurements and feed-forward operations, as well as the errors arising from faulty measurements. This approach yields a energy gap improvement of at least 60% in ground state estimation and reduces observed error of time-evolved states by up to 99% for the Ising model and up to 20% for the Heisenberg model.
Sumeet Shirgure, Siyuan Niu
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI2
2024 Effective Quantum Resource Optimization via Circuit Resizing in BQSKit
abstract
In the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era, mid-circuit measurement and reset operations facilitate novel circuit optimization strategies by reducing a circuit's qubit count in a method called resizing. This paper introduces two such algorithms. The first one leverages gate-dependency rules to reduce qubit count by 61.6% or 45.3% when optimizing depth as well. Based on numerical instantiation and synthesis, the second algorithm finds resizing opportunities in previously unresizable circuits via dependency rules and other state-of-the-art tools. This resizing algorithm, implemented in BQSKit, reduces qubit count by 20.7% on average for these previously impossible-to-resize circuits.
Siyuan Niu, Akel Hashim, Costin Iancu, Bert de Jong, Ed Younis
DAC1
2024 Compiler Optimizations for QAOA
abstract
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is one of the most promising candidates for achieving quantum advantage over classical computers. However, existing compilers lack specialized methods for optimizing QAOA circuits. There are circuit patterns inside the QAOA circuits, and current quantum hardware has specific qubit connectivity topologies. Therefore, we propose Coqa to optimize QAOA circuit compilation tailored to different types of quantum hardware. Our method integrates a linear nearest-neighbor (LNN) topology and efficiently map the patterns of QAOA circuits to the LNN topology by heuristically checking the interaction based on the weight of problem Hamiltonian. This approach allows us to reduce the number of SWAP gates during compilation, which directly impacts the circuit depth and overall fidelity of the quantum computation. By leveraging the inherent patterns in QAOA circuits, our approach achieves more efficient compilation compared to general-purpose compilers. With our proposed method, we are able to achieve an average of 30% reduction in gate count and a 39x acceleration in compilation time across our benchmarks.
Jinglei Cheng, Yuwei Jin, Boxi Li, Siyuan Niu, Zhiding Liang
ICCAD6
2023 SAT-Based Quantum Circuit Adaptation
abstract
As the nascent field of quantum computing develops, an increasing number of quantum hardware modalities, such as superconducting electronic circuits, semiconducting spins, trapped ions, and neutral atoms, have become available for performing quantum computations. These quantum hardware modalities exhibit varying characteristics and implement different universal quantum gate sets that may e.g. contain several distinct two-qubit quantum gates. Adapting a quantum circuit from a, possibly hardware-agnostic, universal quantum gate set to the quantum gate set of a target hardware modality has a crucial impact on the fidelity and duration of the intended quantum computation. However, current quantum circuit adaptation techniques only apply a specific decomposition or allow only for local improvements to the target quantum circuit potentially resulting in a quantum computation with less fidelity or more qubit idle time than necessary. These issues are further aggravated by the multiple options of hardware-native quantum gates rendering multiple universal quantum gates sets accessible to a hardware modality. In this work, we developed a satisfiability modulo theories model that determines an optimized quantum circuit adaptation given a set of allowed substitutions and decompositions, a target hardware modality and the quantum circuit to be adapted. We further discuss the physics of the semiconducting spins hardware modality, show possible implementations of distinct two-qubit quantum gates, and evaluate the developed model on the semiconducting spins hardware modality. Using the developed quantum circuit adaptation method on a noisy simulator, we show the Hellinger fidelity could be improved by up to 40 % and the qubit idle time could be decreased by up to 87 % compared to alternative quantum circuit adaptation techniques.
Sebastian Brandhofer, Jinwoong Kim, Siyuan Niu, Nicholas T. Bronn
DATE3
2022 How Parallel Circuit Execution Can Be Useful for NISQ Computing?
abstract
Quantum computing is performed on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware in the short term. Only small circuits can be executed reliably on a quantum machine due to the unavoidable noisy quantum operations on NISQ devices, leading to the under-utilization of hardware resources. With the growing demand to access quantum hardware, how to utilize it more efficiently while maintaining output fidelity is becoming a timely issue. A parallel circuit execution technique has been proposed to address this problem by executing multiple programs on hardware simultaneously. It can improve the hardware throughput and reduce the overall runtime. However, accumulative noises such as crosstalk can decrease the output fidelity in parallel workload execution. In this paper, we first give an in-depth overview of state-of-the-art parallel circuit execution methods. Second, we propose a Quantum Crosstalk-aware Parallel workload execution method (QuCP) without the overhead of crosstalk characterization. Third, we investigate the trade-off between hardware throughput and fidelity loss to explore the hardware limitation with parallel circuit execution. Finally, we apply parallel circuit execution to VQE and zero-noise extrapolation error mitigation method to showcase its various applications on advancing NISQ computing.
Siyuan Niu, Aida Todri
DATE1